The [http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html Enlightened Sound Daemon] was used by gnome to play system sounds on certain events - like login, logout, etc. It has since been replaced by ''"libcanberra for event sounds or [[GStreamer]]/[[PulseAudio]] for everything else."''[http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/esound-free.html ].

The [http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html Enlightened Sound Daemon] was used by gnome to play system sounds on certain events - like login, logout, etc. It has since been replaced by ''"libcanberra for event sounds or [[GStreamer]]/[[PulseAudio]] for everything else."''[http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/esound-free.html ].